Four Year Anniversary Weekend

Andrew is incredible about planning really fun things for our anniversary. This year was no different. He surprised me with four different activities on four different nights for us to do. They all involved discovery something new at Disney World.

The first night we explored the different resorts all around the parks. One of them is Port Orleans and it is the only place that sells Mickey Beginets. I fell in love with these when we went to Disneyland for my birthday a few years ago. These weren't quite the same but they were good enough. :) Each resort has so many different things to do and is an experience all on its own separate from the amusement parks. We will for sure be going back to them and maybe even sneaking into to do a little swimming at the fun pools.

 The janitor spent about 10 minutes drawing this Mickey on the table with his Squirt Bottle...Super cool!

The next two nights we actually spent the day at Magic Kingdom and stayed at the Grand Floridian. We enjoyed taking Ellie to the pool for the first time. She loves the bath so we thought she would enjoy the pool. It had a zero entry so it was nice she could just sit in just a little bit of water. She wasn't quite sure the whole time but overall we think she liked it. It was fun to play tourist at the hotel. We even went and had dinner with Cinderella and her crew. Since the Grand Floridian is so close to Magic Kingdom we could just sit outside and watch the fireworks. It is fun to see the fireworks in person that we hear at our house at 10:03 every night. The next morning we went and had the famous Tongan Toast at the Polynesian resort. It is french toast stuffed with bananas, rolled in cinnamon sugar, and topped off with a strawberry syrup. It was pretty delicious but VERY expensive. I think I'll have to try and find a copy cat recipe on Pinterest and try it at home.

Our final night of activities we spent at home watching the movie Tower of Terror. It is a Disney movie that was based off the ride. If you love the ride then you'll enjoy the movie. I think it gives a little bit of a better background story to the ride.

We had such a fun time exploring Disney World. There is still a lot more to learn and we feel very blessed a lucky to be able to do that.

Apples Come to Visit

Joe, Aubrey, and Jayden Apple were our first visitors to come experience the Bangerter Disney Magic! They were such good sports as we were trying to figure out all of our wonderful Disney perks that we have. Sometimes we get blocked out of certain parks at certain times. So we couldn't go into Magic Kingdom. That didn't stop us from having fun though. We enjoyed Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios. Andrew and Joe even went on Tower of Terror four times in a row. It was so much fun to have them here with us. Ellie loved watching Jayden and we can't wait till she is a little older and can actually play with other kids. She is so close to crawling! We just sit and stare at her sometimes so we won't miss that first time she pushes up and starts going.

On Sunday we headed to see Andrew's other cousin Will and his wife Jessica and daughter Avery. He gave us a fun personal tour of what he does everyday on the Church's Ranch. The Church owns about 40,000(can't remember the exact number) acres that they raise citrus and cattle on. We even saw our first alligator. I was a a little disappointed that it was in the water and only looked to be about four feet. I'm ready to see a big one soon....but inside my car where I can runaway fast. :) I actually learned that your suppose to run in big zigzags to get away from an alligator. They supposedly can't keep up with you and will just give up. Got to love all the random things I have learned since moving to Florida. Don't get me started on the King Cobra that went missing just a a few weeks ago!

 We were trying to get a picture of all the kids together. Ellie hasn't mastered sitting up on her own quite yet so Andrew had this idea to go under the blanket and hold her up....The next picture explains what happened.

 Ellie hasn't fully realized she basically lives at Disney World. She sleeps most of the time and enjoys her own personal fan on her the whole time.